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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BRITISH MUNITION
. WORKERS STRIKE
ACTION OF TOILERS SCORED BY
WOOLWICH EMPLOYES.
FOGH HUSH
MET BY
SINGLE LIGHTNING
BOLT KILLS THREE
KAISER'S MATURE
JEKYLL AND HYDE
WASHINGTON AFTER
GERMAN LANGUAGE
MOVE STARTED TO BAR BOCHE
TONGUE FROM SCHOOLS.
HUGE HUH SUPPLY
HEAVY
FORCES
FARMERS OF EPHRATA, WASH.,
- MEET- STRANGE FATE.
BOCHE CEIITER HIT
Hli
P01 T THREATENED
FOR 2-MILE Gi
Franco-Americans Rip
Fob's Line Apart.
YANKS RETAKE TWO TOWNS
Epieds, Trugny-Epieds and
Courpoil left Behind by
.- Advancing Doughboys.
BRITISH DASH FORWARD
important Ground Wrenched
From Teutons in Vrigny
Wood Near Rheims.
' PARIS, July 24. Highly important
gains by the French and American
forces on the Aisne-Marne front are
reported in the official statement of
the War Office tonight.
" In the center of the line an advance
cf nearly two miles was made.
Desperate engagements were fought
in the direction of Epieds and Trugny
Epieds, which villages the Americans
again recaptured from the Germans.
To the north of Epieds the Franco
American line is now beyond Courpoil.
The statement reads:
"Between the Ourcq and Marne
eur attacks, resumed this, morning,
. were continued successfully through
out the day.
"On our left we hold Armentieres
and Chatelet wood, beyond which we
advanced as far as Brecy, which we
occupy.
"In the center Franco-American
troops made an advance at certain
points of more than three kilometers.
Yankees Hurl Back Foe.
"DesDerate fichtinc has hppn in
progress in the region of Epieds and
Trugny-Epieds, which, retaken by the
Germans yesterday at the end of the
day, were reconquered again in a
counter-attack by the Americans.
North of thesetwo villages we have
parried our line beyond Courpoil.
"On ,our right we made progress in
the forest of Fere, north of Charteves
and Jaulgonne. Further to the east
we extended our bridgehead at Tre
loup and occupied the southern corner
of Ris forest.
"" "In this sector we captured five
cannon of 150 millimeters and about
50 machine guns, as well as consider
able material.
"Between the Maine and Rheims
there were intermittent artillery ac
tions. Many Prisoners Taken.
"tn yesterday's fighting, in the
fcourse of which our troops occupied
the Bois de Rheims, south of Courmos,
we made several hundred prisoners.
North of Montdidier the total number
of prisoners taken on July 23 in the
region of Mailly-Rainevol and Aub
villers is i850, including 52- officers,
emong them four battalion chiefs.
Among the supplies captured were
four cannon of .77, 45 trench cannon
and 300 machine guns."
LONDON, July 24. (Via Ottawa.)
The British today gained important
ground in Vrigny wood, southwest of
Rheims.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, July 24. (By the Associ
ated Press.) Violent fighting marked
both sides of the pocket in the Ger
man line last night, and today the
battle continued with undiminished
ferocity.
Fighting Is Desperate.
The contending forces attacked and
fcounter-attacked in quick succession
and today the line fluctuated back and
forth for a time, until finally the
Franco-American troops gained the
upper hand and swept forward for
(considerable gains at various points
It is apparent that the Germans
BTe retiring from the dangerous
ealient in which they have found
themselves by the advances of the al
lied troops, but are fighting desper
ately for time in which to remove the
heavy guns and war material which
they had accumulated in the region
for their crushed offensive.
Foe Strafes Franco-British.
Southwest of Rheims the Germans
tiave shown their disappointment over
their inability to hold with their
crack divisions their positions around
Vrigny and have turned all their
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"Strike and You May Go to Hell"
Is Message Sent to Birmingham.
Lincoln Workers on Job.
LONDON, July 24. A etrike of muni
tions workers began at Birmingham at
6 o'clock this evening, the hour the
day workers finished their work, and
when the night shift was to come on
duty, according to a dispatch to the
Central News from Birmingham.
The aggregate membership of the 12
societies affiliated with the Joint com
mittee of the engineering trades unions
is about 65,000, including about 5000
women. , ,
At Lincoln, where the strike was to
become effective tonight, the workers
agreed to remain at their posts pend
ing a. decision of the national confer
ence tomorrow.
The Woolwich arsenal workers held
a meeting today after which they tel
egraphed the Coventy Munitions
workers as follows:
"Strike now and you will earn the
blessings of the kaiser and his army of
murderers, i But you will earn the last
ing condemnation of all those who are
fighting and working in the allied na
tions to gain real freedom for civiliza
tion. "We warn you seriously if you per
sist in striking that this government
owe it to your brave brothers who are
fighting the war that the lives' blood,
while you are fighting with words and
full bellies, that you be immediately
put in front of the firing line and that
your leaders should be shot.
"Strike and you may go to helL
Woolwich will remain at work and earn
the right to shake the hand of the sol
dier when he returns."
SOLDIER GETS 25 YEARS
W. H. Edwards, Polymathic, Pun-J
ishcd for Failing to Obey Officer.
CAMP .LEWIS, Tacoma, July 24.
Private William H. Edwards, of Salt
Lake City, today drew a sentence of
25 years at hard labor on Alcatraz
Island, forfeiture of all pay and al
lowances and a dishonorable discharge
for refusal to obey an order given
by First Lieutenant William V. Clark
to sign the enlistment and assignment
card. He was tried by a general court
martial. Edwards, who is 23 years old, told
the court that he was one of the
charter member of the Polymathic
Society, organized in Salt Lake - City
in 1916, and that the three men who"
were the founders were the only ones
admitted to membership.
At the beginning of his trial he
objected to the entire court, saying
the members were obnoxious to him on
psychological and biological grounds."
L. C. G1LMAN NAMES AIDES
W. ,C. Wilkes, Assistant Director:
J. H. O'Neill Terminal Manager.
SEATTLE, Wash, July 24. Perma
nent appointments of head3 of depart
ments and assistants were announced
today by L. C. Gilman, district director
of the United States railway adminis
tration. W. C. Willfes, former assistant gen
eral freight and passenger agent of
the North Bank line at Portland, is
made assistant to the district director;
James H. O'Neill 1s made -terminal man
ager; J. J. McCullough is named ter
minal superintendent and Frank R.
Hanlon, export agent.
CLASS 1 MEN ARE SCARCE
Seattle Draft Boards Ordered to Halt
Deferred Clasification.
SEATTLE, July 24. On account of
the scarcity of Class 1 men, Seattle
draft officials, it was announced today.
have been authorized by the War De
partment to cease giving deferred
classification to shipyard employes on
account of their work and also to dis
continue releasing men to enlist in the
Navy and Marines.
Official said these orders are but
temporary and would be enforced only
until the last of the August draft
quotas are filled.
MOTHER "RIDES ON RODS"
Mrs. Myrtle Neal With Baby Makes
Long Trip Under Freight Car.
OMAHA, July 24. Mrs. Myrtle Neal,
25 years old, of Cheyenne, Wyo., ar
rested here in men's clothing last
night, said she "rode the rods" of
freight train, holding her 3-year-old
baby in one arm. part of the way to
Omaha. She said her husband mis
treated her. She was wearing overalls
and said she had been employed in
the Union Pacific shops. She expected
to go to work here as an engine wiper,
but her husband arrived today and
they were reconciled. i
KANSAS WHEAT CROP IS BIG
Yield for 1918 Is Estimated at
102,000,000 Bushels.
TOPEKA, Kan., July 24. The 1918
wheat crop in Kansas probably will
total 102,000,000 bushels, according to
a statement made public today by the
Kansas State Board of Agriculture.
"Should, present indications, as evi
denced by threshing returns to date be
borne out with the remaining 78 per
cent of the crop yet to be threshed, the
Winter wheat yield this year will ag
gregate approximately 102,000,000 bush
els," the report states.
Frantic Efforts Made to
Evade Allied Trap.
ENTENTE OUTLOOK CHEERING
Foe's Supply . Railway Men
aced, Says General March.
BOCHE CAUGHT IN POCKET
American Chief of Staff Points Out
Danger of Enemy Positions In
Soissons-Rheinis Salient if
Allied Gains Continue.
WASHINGTON, July 24. Massed
German reserves are keeping open the
jaws of the trap , General .'Foch has
sprung in the Aisne-Marne region, in
a desperate effort to stabilize their
lines without the crushing of the forces
withdrawing from the Chateau Thierry
and Marne salients.
Official reports to' the War Depart
ment show the enemy has but a single
railway to ,rct material out of the
pocket into which he has been forced.
The situation was graphically ex
plained today by General March, chief
of staff, in a mid-week conference with
newspapermen. For the last two days.
General March said, the employment of
probably 15 divisions of fresh German
reserves on the Soissons jaw of the
trap has practically steadied the line
there. On the eastern jaw front the
enemy has been crushed back more than
a mile and a half on a ten-mile front,
further imperiling his whole position
in the salient from which he is en
deavoring to extricate his troops.
Railroad la Blacked.
"The railroad running from Soissons
to Chateau Thierry now is either in our
hands or under our fire," General March
said. "The only way in which the enemy
can get out now or get supplies over a
railroad is by the remaining line from
Nanteuil on the Ourcq to Basoches on
the "Vesle River. '
"It was necessary for him. If he did
not Intend to be caught absolutely in
a pocket, to keep troops from advan
cing and cutting off this road, which
would put him entirely at the mercy of
the allied forces."
Some officers here are of the opinion
that General Foch was rushing forward
masses. of heavy artillery which, with
airplanes, would pound the '.nterior of
the German positions from three sides.
They say the very strength of the
German lines now established will
make his losses great from the concen
trated fire. The enemy forces occupy
a wedge, the center of which Is less
than 15 miles distant from the hard
pressing lines of the allies at any point.
All his communication' lines are within
gun range, once the "heavies" get up
behind the allied lines.
Lacking railway lines on which to
maneuver, the enemy probably is mak-
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Men All Driving Teams on the Way
" Home When Struck Boy' Has
- a ' Narrow Escape.
EPHRATA, Wash., July 24. (Spe
cial.) Lightning killed Don William
son. J. Hlggins and Alfred Powers yes
terday while the men were driving
teams on their way home about six
miles northwest of Ephrata.
It is considered remarkable that the
drivers, each some distance from -the
other, should have been hit by, light
ning. . ..
Roy BUlinsley, a boy who had been
riding on the seat with Powers, had
jumped to the roadside and was walk
ing alongside the 'Powers team when
the bolt came. Billlngsley was thrown
ebout 16 feet, but was not badly hurt.
Higgins was a prominent farmer of
the Ephrata country. He was standing
behind the seat of the . wagon when
struck and was killed instantly.
Williamson also was a prominent
farmer of this section. He was thrown
from his wagon by the bolt. He got to
his feet and walked a short distance
before falling dead.
Itowera appears to have been killed
instantly. He was thrown across the
seat and bruised and badly burned. His
trousers and shoes were torn off, his
coat' shredded and his face torn and
burned.
The men were driving four-horse
teams. One of the lead horses of the
middle -team was killed and his mate
knocked down, but not seriously In
jured. '
MUCH WHEAT IS STORED
Amount Held In Australia Totals
300,000,000 Bushels.
WASHINGTON. July 24. Nearly 300.
000,000 bushels of wheat Is stored In
Australia, the food administration was
informed today. Details of the guaran
tees surrounding the 1918-1919 wheat
harvest In Australia also were trans
mitted. The Australian government
has guaranteed S3 cents a bushel and
to this the commonwealth has added 12
cents, making the price 95 cents to the
producer.
In Buenos Aires the cash price for
wheat Is SI. 44 a bushel. Cash corn is
selling there for 62 cents a bushel.
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN SET
Campaign to Last 3 Weeks, Septem
ber '28 to October 19.
WASHINGTON. July 24. The Treas
ury virtually has decided to hold the
fourth liberty loan campaign In the
three weeks' period between Saturday,
September 28, and Saturday, October 19.
An announcement Is expected . this
week. ' The length of the drive will be
reduced from the usual four weeks with
the hope of avoiding the usual slump of
Interest in the middle of the campaign.
ONLY STREET LIGHTS BURN
Window Illumination and Electric
Signs Shut Off at New York.
NEW- YORK. July 24. Store win
dows illumination was cut off and -all
electric advertising signs derkened to
night in accordance with the Fuel Ad
ministration's order. Along Broadway
on'.y street lights burned.
NOT YET, BUT SOON.
War Reveals Emperor's
True Character.
DUAL PERSONALITY DESCRIBED
American Dentist Recalls In
timacy Lasting for Years.
EGOTISM REIGNS SUPREME
Man Who Accuses Americans of Be
ing Dollar Worshippers Himself
' Caters Servilely to and En
nobles Wealthy Hebrews.
BY ARTHUR N. DAVIS.
(Dentist to the Kaiser for 14 years.)
CHAPTER IV.
THE KAISER'S DUAL PERSONALITY.
. If I had come away from Germany In
January, 1914, instead or In January,
1918,. and had written the impression
I had gained of the kaiser in the 'ten
years I had known him. what a false
picture I would have painted of the
man as he really is!
It would have been a picture of a
man who in general appearance and
bearing was every loch an emperor and
yet who could exhibit all the courtesy,
affability and gentleness of the most
democratic gentleman, a man soft of
eye and kindly in expression, a man of
wide reading and attainments perhaps
the moat versatile man in the world, a
man who possessed a most alert mind,
a remarkable memory and the keenest
observation; a man who was not gen
erous in nature and yet was at times
considerate of others; a man of charm
ing personality and amiability. It
would have shown a man of unpar
alleled egotism, a man who wa im
patient of correction and who would
brook no opposition. There might have
been in the picture a suggestion of the
dire lengths to which the man would
go to bave his wsy. but it would have
been only a suggestion.
As far as It went, the plctura would
have been accurate, but it would have
been sadly Incomplete with all the
lights worked In but lacking all the
shadows. '
War V Bcovrri Character,
It took yhe war . and its attendant
horrors to reveal the Kaiser in his
true colors. The war did not change
his character ; it uncovered it
Early in my practice I happened to
mention to the Kaiser that I appre
ciated the friendliness he showed me
in invariably waving his hand at me
as he passed my window when walking
along the Tiergarten.
"It's a good advertisement for you
Davis," he said. "The people see me
waving to you and they know you must
be a good dentist or I wouldn't come
to you. It' will help your business P
In every act he was conscious of the
public.
During that period of my career in
Berlin he showed the utmost interest
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Mrs. Josephine Preston, State Su
perintendent, Petitioned to Act
. by Dercnse Council.
SEATTLE. Wash., July 24. Wash
ington's State Superintendent of
Schools, Mrs. Johephine Preston, was
asked in a resolution adopted today by
the State Council of Defense to use
her influence in having the teaching
of German eliminated In all public
schools of the state.
The State Council also decided to re
quest private schools teaching German
to discontinue that study by Septem
ber 1, and will call upon county Coun
cils of Defense to give tho Stale Coun
cil seven days notice of any public
meeting to be held where it is planned
to have the speaking In German.
No action was taken concerning in
dorsement of candidates for political
office other than to decide that the
policy of the League of National 'i;ity
should be followed ly the Wellington
Slate Council of Defense.
Spokane's protest regarding her tp
portlonment of war funds, which that
city held to be unjust as compared
with the apportionment of other cities
of the state, will be ,lven a new hear
ing and the question reopened by a
special committee. The committee
named by the State Council comprises
Vice-Chalrman W. A. Peters, A. L. Rog
ers. George Donald. Mrs. J. 3.' McKce.
W. A. Low and W. J. Patterson.
C. J. Lord, of Olympia, elected
state director of war thrift and econ
omy by the State Council-
ENDOWMENT FOR SOLDIERS
Chicago Vnlvcrslty tJcts $2,500,000
for War Heroes' Education.
CHICAGO. July 24. Laverne W.
Noyes, Chicago philanthropist, today
gave $2,500,000 to the University of
Chicago to be used in educating sol
diers and sailors and their descendants
after the war.
In addition to free tuition fee for
war heroes and their children, tho fund
provides for the perpetuation of In
struction in American history and the
public duties of citizenship.
DEAD AVIATORS HONORED
New Fields Named for Mitchel, Liuf
bcrry, Damm and Chapman.
NEWaYORK. July 24. New avia
tion fields on Long Island have been
named respectively after Major John
Purroy Mitchel, Major Raoul Lufberry,
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry J. Damm
and Lieutenant-Colonel C. G. Chap
man. American aviators killed while
flying.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. S
degrees: minimum, 50 decrees.
TODAY'S Pair and warmer; gentle north
erly winds.
War.
sain
Franco-Americana
two more miles.
Paso 1.
Huna rush up big reserves. Page 1.
Official casualty Hat. Page 2.
All France arclal'ma Foch. Gouraud. Magnln
aa war heroes. Page 4. .
Transport Juallcla sunk, ten of crew lost.
Page 3.
Iron discipline In Germany appears to be
giving way. Page 4.
Great German supply center is threatened.
Page 1.
"Squeeze Play" by altiea la momentoua event
of war. Pago 4.
Slay army forming. Page 2.
Foreign.
Reiser's dual personality described by Amer
ican dentiau Pag 1.
British labor endorsee Wllaon'a peace
formula. Page 4.
Italy halls United Statea aoldlera aa cru
saders. . Page 2.
British munition workers strike. Page 1.
National.
War Labor Board hears request of Portland
carmen for higher wages. Page 2.
Domestic.
Wage advAnce for railroad shopmen adda
SIOO.OOO to annual pay roll. Page 5.
Current wildcat promotions greatly exceed
thoae of peace times. Pago 6.
Many more Army contracts found tainted.
Page 2.
Former German conaul In custody at Boston.
Page 5.
Sport a.
Pitcher Walter Johnson receives offer from
Duluth club. Page 12.
Fred Fulton may be classed as draft de
linquent. Pago 13.
Joe Plpal. Aggie coach, to atay at Camp
Kearney. Page 12.
Foundation team strikes Its stride. Page 13.
Tennis vetermna engage in hard matches.
Page 12.
Three harness records are broken at Toledo.
Page 12.
Pacific Northwest.
Three farmers killed by single bolt of
lightning. Page 1.
Waahlngton schools may bar German lan
guage. Page 1.
Presbyterlon Synod proposes Union with
other denominations. Page 7.
Commercial and Marine.
New regulattona .for betterment of egg mar
keting. Page IT.
Corn advancea at Chicago on feara of cold
weather damage. Page 17.
Stock trading light but at higher prices.
Page 17.
Foundation Company to get more ship con
tracts from French government. Page 13.
Sea service bureau to be opened In Portland.
Page 13.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland today will pay homage to big
draft contingent. Page 11.
Oregon called upon to enroll 310 nurses.
Page 11.
Admen told Portland Is modeat In her ad
vertising. Page 1.
Protest against Tanner Creek sewer assess -
ment heard. Page 0.
Selections for County Republican Central
Committee nearly completed. Page 6.
Oregon dairymen atart nation-wide move to
raise milk prices. . Page lo.
Masters and pilots of county ferries theaten
to strike. Page II.
Releasa of registrants for entrance Into Navy
and Marine Corps discontinued. Pago 10.
Grocers and butcher picnic Is big success.
Page 6.
Fame of North west In spruce production
spreads In Europe. - Page 7.
Warning Issued by Collector of Internal
Revenue to corporations Pago 6.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page IT.
Fere-en-Tardenois Under
Constant Bombardment.
ALLIES GONTINUETO PUSH ON
Brecy Is Taken and Franco-
Americans Get Footing in
La Fere Wood.
MORE PRISONERS TAKEN
Yankee Aviators Down Enemy
Planes in Combats to
North of Marne.
AN THE FRENCH FRONT IN
FRANCE, July 24. (By the Associat
ed Press.) The lighting today was
extremely severe southward of the
Ourcq, where the Americans took
Epieds, which they lost yesterday, and
advanced, together with the French, at
least three kilometers, threatening
Fere-en-Tardenois, which is under con- '
stant bombardment. Fere-en-Tardenois
is the great German center of supply
for the Germans in the Soissons
Rheims salient.
Around about Armentieres the Ger
mans had massed hundreds of machine
guns, which caused some trouble, but
could not stay the advance of the allied
troops. The Tournelles wood was
reached, Brecy fell and the Franco
Americans obtained a footing in the
Le Fere wood.
Fighting Is Incessant.
Southwest of Rheims the British and
French have been- fighting the Ger
mans incessantly for five days. The
Germans are trying to protect the
pivot on which their armies are re
treating northward. But they have not
stopped the allies. In the last two days
hundreds of prisoners from enemy
shock divisions have been taken, while
several German points established in
the small woods have succumbed to
allied attacks.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY '
ON THE AISNE AND MARNE
FRONT, July 24. (By the Associated
Press.) Extremely hard fighting has
been going on along the line south of
Soissons, where the Germans are con
centrating in full strength in order to
prevent the further imperiling of their
lines. The allies have made gains.
German Railroads Useless.
The railroads now are useless so
far as the Germans are concerned,
while the heavy guns of the allies are
reaching many of the wagon road3
which the enemy has fought so hard to
retain.
The Germans can obtain limited sup
plies, but it is believed that these will
not be sufficient to warrant keep
ing the big army in the salient.
No great artillery activity charac
terized fighting today. Yesterday the
Americans fought three times for the
possession of Epiedr, the Germans
countering every time. The Americans
passed Epieds today with comparative
ly little resistance. The French on
their part of the fine also found the
enemy willing to move.
Hot rearguard actions are contin
uing. The losses among the Germans
have been lighter than usual on ac- '
count of their failure to resist stren
uously the advance of the allies. North
of Chateau Thierry the allied forces
used mounted patrols at two places in
maintaining contact with their armies
in the rear.
Huns Move Some of Guns.
It is known now that General von
Boehm, the German commander on
this front, has managed to move a
large part of his guns and stores.
Owing' to the fact that the day was
bright and there was little wind, avia
tors played an important role in the
fighting.
American aviators in combats north
of the Marne on Wednesday downed
five German "machines. The Americans
suffered no losses. Their first fight
was with a German squadron of 12
planes, the battle lasting nearly two
hours. Four Germans were downed.
Later the Americans shot down an
other enemy plane.
Enemy Aviators Driven Off.
The newspaper correspondents today
witnessed an aerial engagement on
the Chateau Thierry front in which
the enemy was driven off. An enemy
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